Description
Organization of a guest lecture by Dr. Malene Jacobsen (Geography, Newcastle University), at the cross-departmental (informal) research group on migrationAbstract:
In this paper, I consider the lived experiences of refuge and how these experiences shape Syrian women’s imaginations of their futures. In the wake of recent global refugee crises, Denmark introduced a one-year (renewable) protection status in the fall of 2014, a status that has mainly been granted to Syrian women (43%) and accompanied children (37%). While this status enables recipients to reside in Denmark, it governs refugees lives in ways that enshrine their liminality by providing conditional and short-term protection. Situating this temporary protection status (TPS) within the changing landscapes of refugee governance, I examine how Syrian women live with and negotiate TPS. I bring together recent research on time and displacement with insights from feminist literature on time-space relations and futures to illustrate two main points. First, TPS creates a condition of ‘fragile futures’, characterized by a returning uncertainty and unpredictability about when the Danish state might withdraw its protection. Second, I show how Syrian women find ways to imagine and work towards particular futures. In short, I argue that attention to the role of time and temporalities within refugees’ lives provide new insights into the geographies of refuge and the meaning of protection.
| Period | 24 Feb 2023 |
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| Event type | Lecture |
| Location | Roskilde, DenmarkShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |